National Republican., 1887-08-01

battles, bloodless, groonless painlcsi. Angels
Other rebelllOus worlds " be conquered.
Worlds to be put TO tho torch. Worlds to he
saved Worlds 10 be demolished. Worlds TO
be sunk. Worlds to be hoisted.
Besides that in our own world there are bat.
ties for the right aud against the wrong whore
we must have the heavenly military. That Il
what keeps us Christian reiormers so buoyant.
so few good men against so many bad men; so
few churches against 20 many grog shops; so
few pure printing presses against so many Poi.
luted printing presses and vet we are buoyant
and courageous, pecausc while we know that
the armies OF evil in the world are larger in
numbers than the army Of the truth, there arc
celestial cohorts in the air fighting OH our
side
have not so much faith in the army on the
ground as / have, in tho army In
Ss hat %G S moV sec COD ibom open The our myTy fyss
spirits that went up from earth to join the
military spirits beforo the thtone--loshua,
snd Caleb b and Gideon and PayG and sam
who on earth fought with tlcshly arm. aud now
having gone up on high arc coming down the
hills Of heaven ready TO fight among the in.
visibles. Yonder they are-coming, coming.
Did you not hear them as they swept by2
But what are our mathematical friends to do
n the next world3 They found their joy and
more poetry for them in Euclid than in John
Milton. They were as passionately fond OF
mathematics as Plato, who wrote over his
quainted with geometry" What are they
doing now2 They arc busy with figures yet.
No place In nll the universe like heaven for
figures. Numbers infinite, distances iniini.e,
calculations infinite. The didactio DR.. Dick
said he really thought that tho redeemed in
heaven spent some OF their timo with tho
higher branches OF mathematics
Some of our transferred and transported
metuphysicians-what are they doing now?
Studying the human mind, only under bottor
They used TO study the mind sheathed IN tho
duh human body. Now the spirit unshesthed
now they are stndving the sword outside the
Ss4SaT1 Have gon any d0nht aR5n; what
what Jonathan Edwards is doing In heaven,
or the multtudes on earth who had u passion
for metophyslcS tanctifed by the grace Of God?
NO difficulty IN guessing Metaphysics, glOH.
Gus metaphysics, everlasting metaphysics
What are our departed Christian friends who
are explorers doing now7 Exploring yet, bu.
copio and telescope at the same time. A con
tinent at a glance. A world In q second. A
planetary System In g day. Christian John
Ing toward the north pole; Christian Dc Long
no more trying to free 'blockgded "Jcannette"
from the ice; Christian Livingstone no more
tion Of a dark continent, but all of them in the
twiDkling of an eye taking In that which was
unapproechable Moot Blanc scaled without
pfed Without dTns Ell The e
nnbarfed and opened without Sir Humphrey
Davy's safety lamp.
" nat are our departed frlendS VINO found
their chief joy in study doing now Studying
yet, but instead of a few thousand volumes on
few shelves oil the volumes of the universe
open before them-geoogic, ornithologic, con
chologiC, botanic asronomic, philOsophtc.
No more need OF Ley den jars, or voltaic piles,
or electric batteries, standing, az they DO, face
| TO- face with the facts of the universe.
What are the historians doing now? study
| Ing history. yet but not the history OF a few
centuries Of our planet only, but the his.
tory OF the eternities-1who!e millenlnms be-
| fore Xenophon, or Herodotus, or Moses, or
Adam was born. History OF one world, history
| of all worlds.
What are our departed astronomers doing Z?
sindyinS ing, astronomy yet, but not through the
stroke of wing going right out TO Jupiter and
Mars and Mercury aud Saturn, and Orion and
pIsiades s. ,SU,s Soy,GrSSstns and passing swisst
iian. Have you any doubt about what Hers
| chel Is doiugY Isaac Newton died Christian
Have you any doubt about what Isaac Newton
| is doiGgP Joseph Henry died a Christian.
| Have you any doubt about what Joseph Henry
| is doing They were In discussion, all these
Astronomers OF earth about. what the aurora
boreaiis was, and none, of them could guess.
They know now; they have been out there to
see for themselves.
What are our departed Christian chemist,
loving out ard Following out forever. % since nc;
| they died they have solved ten thousand Ques.
tions which once puzzled the earthly labora
tory. They stand ON the other side of the thin
divide the physical from the spiritual world
the thin wall of electricity, 50 thin the wall
that ever and anon 1t seems TO be almost broken
through---broken through from our side by
telephonic and telegrnphlc apparatus, broken
through from the other side by strange inau.
ences which men in their Ignorance call
| spir!tnalIstic manifestations. All that matter
cleared up. Agassiz standing amid his
student explorers down in Brazil comlns
MsSloss &C some great novelty in the rocks, taking
pray; we must have divine illumination; We
| want wisdom from the Creator to study these
| rocks; He made them; let us pray"Agassi
| forever.
But what are the men OF the law. who in
| this world found their chief Joy In the legal
profession, what are they doing now? study
Ing law in a universe where everything is con
tro!lod by law from fight Of humming bird tc
| Fight of world-law, not dry and hard and
| diudRfpg. but righteous ard magnificent Law
before which man and cherub and seraph aud
| Grchapgel and God himself bow. The chain
OF law long enough to wind around the immeu
sites and infinity and eternity. Chain of lazy.
| What place TO study law, where all the link
OF he chain arc in the hand!
| What are our departed Christian friends who
IN this world had their joy In the healing art
doing now? Busy at their OLD business. No
sickness in heaven, but plenty of sickness on
earth, plenty OF wounds in the different parts
of Gods dominion to be healed and to be InedI
| Gated. You cannot understand why that pG.
tient got well after all the ekillful doctors oi
New York and Brooklyn had said he must die
Perhaps AbercrOinbie touched him; Abercrom
| bic. who, after many years doctorins the
bodies and the souls of people In Scotland,
touched him.
John Brown who died In Edinburgh-john
Brown, the anthor of "Rab and His Ffiends'-
John Brown, who was as humble Christian a
he was sk physician C, and WQrd,Ie
been back again and again TO see some of hi'
old patients. Those who had their joy II
healing the sickness and woes OF earth, gon,
up TO Heayen, are come fork sgain for benig
nnnt mcdicGment
But what are our friends who found thel
chief Joy IN conversation and 10 sooiality doIn,
now In brighter conversation there aud IL
What a place 10 visit In, where your next
door neighbors are kings and queens. Yot
yourselves kingly and queenly. II they wan
TO know more particularly about the first Para
die, they have only to go over and ask Adam
Ifthey want to know how the sun aud thu
moon halted, they have only TO 60 over anC
ark Joshua, II they want 70 know how th'
storm petCd Sodom, they have only to 20
over and ask Lot. II they want TO know mor'
about the arrSganc@s gan @ OF @Haman' they i have % on,,
know how the Red Sea boiled when It wa
cloven, they have only 70 go oyer and ash
Moses. lfthey want 10 know the particular
about the Bethlehem advent, they have only
to 20 over and ask the serenading angels whC
stood that Christmas night In the balconies o
crystal II they want TO Know more OF the par
| ticulars OF the crucihxion, they have only Il
| 20 over and ask those who Were per onal spec
tators while the mountains crouched and thl
heavens got black In the face at the spectacle
If they want to know more about the suffer
| ings OF the Scotch covenantors, they have Only
10 go over and ask Andrew Melville. II theI
want TO know more about the old-tlmc reviyals
they have only to go over and ask Whitfield
aud Wesley, and Livingston, and Fletcher
and Nettleton, ana Finney. o, what place L
| visit in
Ii eternity were one minute shorter 1t woul,
| not be long enough for such soCiallty. Thiul
OF our friends who in this world were passion
utely fond OF flowers turned into Paradise
Think of our friends who were very fond o
raising superb fruit turned Into the orchard
where each tree has twelve kinds of fruit N
once and bearing the fruit all the year round
ing In heaven-thosc who on earth found th 1
chief 10y in The Gospel ministry? They ar
visiting their old congregations.